You people made our Anti-Gooberism drive a success

This season's Season for Sharing campaign is over and with it the Valley 101 Anti-Gooberism campaign.

Last year, you people gave a record-breaking $73,000 to the V101 part of S4S.

This season you came up with an astounding $148,105.99 for our needy or ailing friends and neighbors.

If I wasn't a guy, I would just plain weep from surprise and gratitude. Don't you know that the housing market is still kind of down and the unemployment rate is still high? Don't you realize that a lot of people - me, for instance - don't have much money to toss around? And yet you dug deep and more than doubled last year's total.

You people. I am so proud of you.

Let's celebrate. My masters' idea of gratitude is pretty much to snarl when you put food in front of them, but they are giving me eight Diamondbacks tickets for the upcoming season - two sets of four. I can't get them until March, and they'll be for some game in April.

You can try for the tickets if you donated to the Anti-Gooberism drive or not. Let your conscience be your guide.

Send me an e-mail with your name and daytime phone number to the address below with "Shucks, 'Tweren't Nothing" in the subject line or send them on a postcard to that title at Valley 101, Arizona Republic, 200 E. Van Buren St., Phoenix, AZ 85004.

The deadline is the end of the month. With the help of Inga, my lovely assistant in her sequined leotard and big feathered headdress, we'll have a drawing for the games.

I wonder which one of you gave the 99 cents? Whoever it was, it helped.